Increasing Diverse Representation in Senior Leadership
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While most corporations have set ambitious goals for diverse representation in senior leadership, less than 8 percent of corporations have achieved them. Studies repeatedly show that corporations with diverse representation in leadership achieve faster DEI progress and maintain a competitive advantage in an increasingly diverse and socially conscious society. So, how do DEI executives break the vicious cycle of senior leaders hiring and advancing those who look like them? What are the top-performing companies doing differently? Seramount’s latest research explores these two questions and offers a sample of innovative, actionable strategies that work.
Learning Objectives:
- Insights into what most corporations are missing in their DEI strategy around diverse representation at the top.
- At least 1-2 DEI strategies from exemplar organizations that have dramatically advanced more historically excluded talent into senior leadership positions.
- Several in-depth case studies that are designed to generate bold, practical ideas for your organization.
Sponsored by Seramount
Carla Hickman
As Vice President, Research Growth Strategy at EAB, Carla leads the design and development of new research initiatives, experiences, and services to drive action and results for Seramount’s DEI Research Partnership as well as EAB’s K12 and higher education partner institutions. With Seramount, her research seeks to understand the DEI needs of organizations and to help CDOs effect change in their own companies that advance the cause of DEI more broadly.
Following her time as an undergraduate at Colgate University, Carla cultivated a passion for education as a K12 teacher in the Bronx and Washington, DC. She holds an MS in Teaching from Pace University and a Duke MBA from the Fuqua School of Business. When not cheering on the Cubs or the Crimson Tide, you’ll find Carla volunteering as a mentor for Tennessee Achieves or serving as chair for the Duke University Learning Innovation Advisory Council.
